BOP Daily News
May 10, 2004
The spirit of BOP News lives on in
This is So Last Week,
our pop culture week-in-review,
presented in a pleasing quiz form.
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Jumping onto the Broadway-musical adaptation bandwagon is Warner Bros. who have bought the rights to the musical Rent from Dreamworks and signed Chris Columbus to direct. A contemporary version of Puccini’s La Bohème, Rent takes place in New York’s Upper East side. The John Larson play was a gigantic success on Broadway and will be keeping heterosexual men away from theatres in 2005.
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From the Nooooooooooooo!!!!! department, The Pink Panther has begun production with Steve Martin, Kevin Kline and…is that right? Beyonce Knowles? No, that can’t be right. Are they being serious???....Okay,…and Beyonce Knowles set to star. While the project had been announced a while ago, we were still holding out hope that Steve Martin playing Jacques Closeau in a Pink Panther film would never see the light of day. Yet, here we are. For our regular news readers, we should warn you that there will be a lot of hatred spewed towards this project over the next 18 months.
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave. So after about a day of baseball fans acting like baseball players, Major League Baseball has decided to scrap its plans to feature tiny patches of webs on their base pads for a weekend in promotion of this summer’s Spider-Man 2. Sony and MLB had come to an agreement to promote the film through ads in the on-deck circles as well as a 5 inch pad of “webbing” on first, second and third bases of 8 different home games over the June 11th to 13th weekend. Fan reaction was so negative that MLB will now only feature the ads on the on-deck circles. Of course, Sony received more publicity for the film than the actual pads would have generated sans uproar. In other news, Mel Gibson has signed a contract with MLB to have crosses placed on baseball pads during opening weekend next year in promotion of his Passion of the Christ sequel, Lethal Weapon 5.
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Jada Pinkett Smith is upset that there is heat directed towards her with regards to her single Taste Your Fruit. Criticized for having not so subtle lyrics that refer to oral sex, Pinkett-Smith, who is currently on tour with Britney Spears in Europe, claims that the song actually “…is supposed to symbolize the nurturing aspect of the male character. So that's what it was supposed to be about.” Smith claims that she did not make a connection to the oral sex allusions until her husband pointed it out to her. We believe Jada, seeing she probably didn’t actually know what the lyrics were up until about 5 minutes before she began to record the song. Our Daily News editor had planned on publishing the lyrics to the song but, to everyone’s shocking surprise, the lyrics were almost non-existent.
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